How to apply a patch using svn export?

Question

I'd like to use svn to apply a patch from one version of Joomla to another. I'm using a mac with Versions installed, but don't mind using svn on the command line. So far, I've figured out how to generate the list of files that changed from one revision to the other, but I want to export those changed files to my working directory. How does one go about doing that? Do I need to save the diff output and process it using awk, or is there a command line option to pipe those files into an export command?

The diff command I'm using is: svn diff http://joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/releases/1.5@11255 http://joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/releases/1.5@11410 --summarize

Answer 1

for creating a patch use:

svn diff > ~/patch.diff

for applying a patch use:

patch -p0 -i ~/patch.diff

Answer 2

I'm not sure as to the setup of your current repository and how much flexibility you have but following the vendor drop process as detailed in the red bean book might help.